Death on Horseback Chasing a Flying Knight
1631
Sebastian Vrancx
Sebastian Vrancx (Flemish, 1573–1647)
Drawings
Death on Horseback Chasing a Flying Knight, 1631. Sebastian Vrancx (Flemish, 1573–1647). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite; framing lines in brown ink (bottom edge); sheet: 20.1 x 26 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1980.19
- Maker/Artist
- Vrancx, Sebastian
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite; framing lines in brown ink (bottom edge)
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 20.1 x 26 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed, lower center, in brown ink: [artist's monogram: SV] ; by artist, lower right, in brown ink: @ 1631 ; upper center, in brown ink: Geen man soo cloeck, nooch dier soo snel / De doot en Achter-haelt hun wel, [= No man [is] so clever, nor animal so swift/ Death overtakes them all] ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper center, in graphite: Bought at Vienna / 1817 ; center, in graphite: Sebastian Vrancx ; lower right, in graphite: 10 1/8 x 12 3/8 / 15 5/8 x 17 3/8
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1980.19
- Credit Line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1980, Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics, National Schools of Style, Netherlandish Drawings from the Permanent Collection
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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